100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022: Weathering the Storm Together
Volume: 26
Edition: 3
Manufacturers, retailers and others recognize suppliers who have been instrumental in their quest for supply chain excellence. See the full list — plus a dozen case studies that highlight their accomplishments.
It takes solid partnerships to weather crises — or, for that matter, the day-to-day business of supply chain management. In this latest edition of our annual roster of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners, we present instances of true collaboration in the face of enormous challenges.
E.D. Etnyre & Co., the venerable manufacturer of heavy equipment for road maintenance and preservation, looks for a way to share data from multiple legacy systems across the organization.
How luxury fashion powerhouse Philipp Plein uses AI technology to improve international shipping, increase products shipped, and reduce costs — without compromising customer service.
A new platform for automating and managing financial processes has helped the company to consolidate multiple environments and gain access to billions of key data points.
A collection of divergent planning models and inefficient spreadsheets was preventing the company from realizing ambitious growth plans. The solution: a digital supply chain platform.
Looking to expand its distribution network in line with “exponential” business growth, FBN adopts a “self-implementation” tool for automating slow and inefficient manual processes.
Maxed out on capacity at its European distribution centers, the iconic denim brand uses the opportunity to consolidate operations and respond to market demand with greater speed and efficiency.
The leading seller of radio-controlled hobby products undertakes an in-depth evaluation of the location, size and type of its U.S. distribution facilities.
HJI Supply Chain Solutions was having trouble implementing a new warehouse management system, to the point of considering scrapping the whole project. Then it found a partner that helped make the initiative work.
Global cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks, Inc. needed to implement a new tool for supply as well as sales and operations planning functionality — and time was of the essence.
The pandemic forced Plant Shop to transition quickly to a delivery model. A software application was the solution to optimizing the daily routing plan.
With the concept of a “peak season” melting away during the pandemic, Coyote Logistics sought a better way to manage UPS drivers at the parcel giant’s hub facilities.
With a policy of keeping large amounts of inventory on hands, Parts Town was ready for any supply disruption. But it was also aided by having previously installed a goods-to-person system in the warehouse.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection now has the authority to bar goods from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous (XUAR) if their production involves the use of slave labor.
In a transportation and logistics context, location intelligence refers to technologies that aggregate supply chain data and apply machine learning to provide insights into the whereabouts and movements of assets, products and human resources.
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Here are five challenges facing supply chain managers today, with guidance on how a partnership approach that combines process, people and technology can help.